Traumatic Moment Research Articles

Irony as Trauma & Trauma as Irony in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah

Claude Lanzmann makes use of what this essay posits as metairony which dramatizes the shocks of the acting out of the trauma of the Holocaust. The film director makes the survivors and witnesses and the viewers to become retraumatized and to relive the past. By so doing, the traumatized mind can cope with the trauma because acting out helps the reflective consciousness to prevent itself from being overwhelmed by shock, in Walter Benjamin’s assumption, by reproducing shock, that is, by seizing upon each traumatic moment and parrying it - in effect, by responding to violence with violence. Testimonies in Shoah break the boundary between the experience of shock and experience as shock.

Mourning, Separation, Mental Space

Abstract The work of mourning and organization of the mental space may be seriously disturbed by the real loss of the object and the way how communication with the “still alive” objects is built. Certain obstacles in communication with significant people make the mental separation difficult. The problem of separation, individuation and building of somebody’s own mental space is linked to the way in which the child mourns in relation to the central objects of early childhood. Especially the real loss of a parental object during the early childhood implies a traumatic moment which will excessively dramatize the oedipal issues. In this context, the analysis of the infantile material and development of an analytical work, which would perlaborate the trauma of the loss under a full oedipal conflict of one of the parents, as well as the subjectivation difficulties deriving from this trauma are the indispensable elements of a psychoanalytic work.

Le trauma de guerre comme moteur d’écriture : analyse patho-littéraire et psycholinguistique de Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Le trauma de guerre comme moteur d’écriture : analyse patho-littéraire et psycholinguistique de Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Rhematization as Etiology in the Diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Current psychiatric nosology emphasizes observable symptoms as the central schema by which mental illnesses should be classified; patients are identified as depressed or schizophrenic by virtue of observed behavior or reported experiences, rather than theoretical underlying causes that may lead to an array of diverse presentations. Within this schema, the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is somewhat an outlier—its identification relies not only on overt symptomatology, but also the identification of a particular etiology from traumatic moment to current distress. That is, symptoms diagnosed as PTSD not only index that diagnostic category, but also a previous pathogenic trauma. This indexicality is bolstered by an act of rhematization, the transformation of indexical relationships into iconic links, whereby PTSD symptoms are understood as resembling a pathogenic trauma, thus distinguishing PTSD from disorders whose presentations carry no such resemblance to trauma. This paper was only possible through the generous feedback and reference suggestions by Kira Hall, Kathryn Goldfarb, and Chase Raymond.

Fun until the end: The nightclub fantasy in the Italian cinema of the economic miracle

This article examines the use of the nightclub trope in three films from the early years of the Italian “economic miracle”: Luchino Visconti’s White Nights (1957), Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957), and Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte (1961). Availing myself of psychoanalytic theory, I discuss how, in these three films, the nightclub is deployed as a hermeneutic space that sheds light on the functioning of the then nascent ideology of consumption, specifically on the way it captures the subject through fantasy. Capitalism earns our allegiance by creating the illusion that the ontological lack that marks us as subjects is in fact only contingent, and thus remediable through the acquisition of an empirical object (a commodity) that might yield the total enjoyment we crave. In mainstream Hollywood cinema—the chief disseminator of the capitalist ideology—this illusion is mostly fostered through the fantasy of the successful sexual relationship (or romantic fantasy). Through the nightclub trope, Fellini, Visconti, and Antonioni deconstruct this fantasy by letting it unfold well past the point at which Hollywood endings would stop, until it inevitably unravels into an encounter with the Real: nothing but loss awaits us at the end of fantasy. Yet this traumatic moment is politically crucial: once we realize that the enjoyment we failed to attain was always already lost, we will be free from the capitalist injunction to consume and accumulate—from the crippling illusion that our happiness lies but one more purchase away.

LawToo? #MeToo, Transgender Rights Movement, and Re-garding Justitia Today

LawToo?#MeToo, Transgender Rights Movement, and Re-garding Justitia Today Kyoo Lee (bio) LawToo? Just as "just" laws in liberal democracy are meant to protect and project—to protect the free and the vulnerable by punishing the violators while projecting a better future for all by promoting the public good—various, intricately coordinated, and at times conflicting laws governing the matters of sex, gender, and sexuality, too, seem to evolve to serve such a profoundly dual function of the law. Since "sexual difference" or "gender distinction," often an implicitly biased concept coextensive with the psychosocial basis for sex/ gender-based discrimination, remains one of the most primary dividers (sec/ sex) in the identity/ID-based construction and codification of life (bios, la vie) legally supported or sidelined as such, quite obviously, the promises and perils of legally conjugated life, in turn, stem from the sequentially generative (gen/gene/genre), not restrictive, envisioning and practices of law. Of particular interest to me, in this regard, is this small yet pressing question: how to Make Law Great Again? For instance, who or what or where is a "person" in the first place? In order for "Jane Doe," "a woman whose real name is not known or cannot be revealed for legal reasons" (such as the St. Louis Jane Doe, a little girl found brutally murdered after being possibly raped, 1983), to be recognized in the eyes and rule of law, she, including a transwoman, has to be constituted as a person in the foundational sense as in "all men [. . .] created equal" (the Declaration of [End Page 149] Independence, 1776), where men is supposed to represent all, including, over time, women too, whose legal equality and social equity, from bedroom to boardroom, in street or on screen, is still in question. Then there is this Arnoldian conundrum of sunny disposition too: when "I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman" (Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California, 2003), what exactly am "I" or should I be thinking? A gay actor or a "female" lawyer, from Kevin Spacey, whose episodic history of sexual misconduct was recently hyper-sexualized and doubly scandalized by the hetero-centric homophobic corner in the court of #MeToo to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the mildly ironic "wise Latina woman," whose constitutively minoritarian "bias" was stressed by all sorts of readymade sexist and racist assumptions about her identity and judiciousness, almost anyone embedded in the US legal culture and its patriarchal capitalist climate tends to get caught up in its complex, game-like intersectional battles, social or legal, often both. So "we will not be erased," chant transgender rights activists today in protest, while "indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter," says she, Professor Christine Blasey Ford, a courageous "#MeToo" recounting on national TV the most vivid, traumatic moment in the attempted rape, as she recalls, by the drunken teenager Brett, now Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh so justified (10/10/2018), so we heard. Consider, further in this vein, rape laws including prison rape law. Insofar as an attempted rape is a felony under current laws, not a misdemeanor subject just to a one-year statute of limitations as in the early 1980s, one could see how and where it has evolved, and yet, insofar as it also still "lets prison rape go on" (Bozelko, 2015) behind the bars as part of darkly "correctional" social punishment, it marches in virtual lockstep with the raw existential threats to transgender rights today. In both cases what has been politically mobilized, soon to morph into some discriminatory polices (e.g., the federal repeal of transgender bathroom protection), is the aggressively "legalized," legally sanctioned, blindness of law to gender and sexual justice. The Department of Health and Human Services is now pushing for only a retro-definition of gender in federal civil rights laws to erase the already bordered existence of transgender by recognizing only cis-gender, sex assigned at birth, only "M" of "F" genitally codified on each birth certificate. To understand how gender works in law, one should perhaps dwell on the gender(s) of law too, i.e., its (and or their [d]) evolution, as Justitia remains...

Caudal Anesthesia in Surgical Interventions of the Lower Extremities in Children

Aim of the study: Comparative study of the effects of bupivacaine and ropivacaine in caudal anesthesia in surgical interventions of the lower extremities in children. Material and methods of the study: The study included 59 children operated on for congenital dislocation of the hip, correction of various deformities of the pelvic bones, clubfoot, etc. All patients were divided into 2 groups depending on the type of local anesthetic used: Group I (n=39) was anaesthetized with caudal with ropivacaine and intravenous anesthesia with propofol, group II (n=20) - caudal block was performed with bupivacaine. Results of the study: At the first stage of the study, the indices of central hemodynamics in both groups after the corresponding preoperative preparation were stable and corresponded to their mean age values. At the II and III stages of the study (skin incision and the most traumatic moment of the operation), the decrease in heart rate was observed at 13-16%, respectively, and the SI and AD mean declined unreliably. These changes are due to a sympathetic blockade caused by caudal administration of local anesthetics, which did not cause a significant reduction in SI because children were given infusion therapy at a rate of 10-12 ml/kg/h. At the third stage of the study (12 hours after the operation), the hemodynamic parameters remained stable in patients of the I group, did not differ significantly from the baseline data, which was explained with prolonged action by the action of the caudal block with ropivacaine. And in group II patients (caudal block with bupivacaine) at the third stage of the study (after 12 hours after the operation) a significant increase in heart rate was observed by 38%, SI - by 27% and ADDred. - by 11%. Therefore, patients of this group for the purpose of anesthesia in the postoperative period were prescribed tramadol in age dosages. The level of cortisol in patients of both groups in the II and III stages of the study was reduced by 26% and 23%, respectively, which confirmed the adequacy of these anesthesia techniques for surgical interventions of the lower extremities. Conclusions 1. Caudal anesthesia with 0.75% solution of ropivacaine is a highly effective, reliable and safe method of anesthesia in traumatic operations of the lower extremities in children. 2. Caudal administration of a 0.75% solution of ropivacaine provides a prolonged sensory and motor block. 3. The superiority of caudal anesthesia with a 0.75% solution of ropivacaine over anesthesia with a 0.5% solution of bupivacaine is due to its more potent local anesthetic effect, as evidenced by a wider sensory block and deeper motor blockade with ropivacaine.

Scandalous Memory: Terrorism Testimonial from the Algerian War

ABSTRACTZohra Drif, a heroine of the Front de Libération Nationale's independence movement during the Algerian War, planted a bomb in the Milk Bar in Algiers on September 30, 1956, which killed three people, wounded fifty, and maimed twelve civilians. The 2008 documentary Les Porteuses de feu directed by Faouzia Fékiri engages Algerian women, including Drif, who testify to their willing participation in the FLN's terrorist activities in their fight for independence from France (1954–1962). But two of the Milk Bar bombing victims have grappled with the effects throughout their lives, and these depictions cause aftershocks that do not allow the trauma to dissipate. Nicole Guiraud, age ten, lost her left arm and saw her father gravely wounded; Danielle Michel-Chich was five when her leg was amputated and her grandmother was killed. Guiraud and Michel-Chich willingly and publicly recount the traumatic moment of their loss in spoken and written testimony, but they remain at odds about how this memory should be confronted. This article explores how traumatic memory, even sixty years onward, is contested by those directly affected, creating scandalous debate in France.

Optimization of postoperative analgesia after adenoidectomy in children

It is known that pharyngalgia is very common after tonsillectomy. It should be emphasized that the intensity of pain after adenoidectomy in children is not less important than after adenotonsillectomy. Despite the availability of standardized pain assessment scales and existing postoperative analgesia recommendations, unresolved postoperative pain still occurs in children. The research included 117 children with an average age of 7.5 ± 0.4 years, who underwent adenoidectomy at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care of "Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital" of Kharkov city in 2014. Depending on the method of general anesthesia, patients were divided into 3 groups: group I (n = 41) those who received propofol in combination with fentanyl; group II (n = 40) those who received sevoflurane in combination with fentanyl; group III (n = 36) those who received thiopental sodium combined with fentanyl. We monitored the heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure, BIS-index, heart rate variability, respiration rate, and SpO2. We determined the levels of cortisol and insulin in the blood serum, glucose level, the ratio of cortisol/insulin was calculated. Assessment of the efficiency of postoperative analgesia was performed using the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Scale («Faces») and the Oucher Scale. The result of analysis of the intensity of postoperative pain determined that at the 1st hour after the operation by the «Faces» and Oucher scales, it was significantly higher in patients of group II compared with the patients of group I and group III. The morning after the operation there was no significant difference in the pain scales, and the number of scale points showed that children from all groups did not have pain. According to the data of ANOVA it was determined that only the patients in group I with indicator ΔBIS-index «intubation – traumatic moment of operation» experienced postoperative pain intensity on the «Faces» scale. A very strong correlation between «cortisol – BIS index» was observed during the traumatic moment of operation and unidirectional positive correlations were seen both between ΔBIS-index «intubation-the traumatic moment of operation» and between the level of cortisolemia (Δcortisol before surgery – the traumatic moment of operation, Δcortisol extubation – the 1st day after the surgery and Δcortisol before surgery – the 1st day after the surgery) and the intensity of postoperative pain by the «Faces» and Oucher scales. The around-the-clock prescribed administration of ibuprofen at dose 10 mg/kg after adenoidectomy provided effective postoperative analgesia. At the 1st hour after the operation lower pain intensity was revealed in patients using propofol in combination with fentanyl by both pain scales. We believe that propofol is able to influence the level of cortisol and assume that due to minimal changes in the level of cortisol during the perioperative period, propofol can reduce the intensity of postoperative pain.

Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age

Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized AgeFILOMENO V. AGUILAR JR.Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2014, xii+293p.The central argument made by Filomeno Aguilar in Migration Revolution is that overseas migration, as it is occurring since 1960s, has brought about important social, cultural, and institutional changes in Philippine society. The migration of Filipinos overseas has become a crucial economic factor because of enormous remittances that they have generated every year. Migration has accordingly reconfigured class structure, transnationalized social relations, and engendered legal and discursive shifts pertaining to migrants' political participation and inclusion in Philippine state. It has also rekindled a sense of nationhood and national identity among migrant Filipinos, contributing to a profound reinterpretation of national narrative. Migration Revolution offers us a thorough examination of these changes and their consequences.Contemporary cross-border migration has enabled Philippine nation to envision itself within a plurality of nations, pushing Philippine state to reorient its foreign policy and redefined boundaries of both citizenship and nation across borders. It has also important emotive implications. The public outcry caused by execution of Flor Contemplacion in 1995, for example, marked not only a traumatic moment pointing at vulnerability of overseas labor migrants, but also produced unprecedented surges in Filipino transnationalism.The book is a collection of essays written by Aguilar over past decade and a half, mostly during his sojourns outside Philippines. He focused on Filipino migrants because the situations described here1) are somehow internal to, albeit not identical with, my own life experiences as one of them (p. 174). An important strength of book-and of Aguilar's scholarship in general-lies in his positionality as an itinerant scholar. Aguilar has generated precious data from his field research among migrant laborers and professionals in Southeast Asia as well as United States throughout his academic career. This research enabled him to draw important comparisons and analyze migrant transnationalism in its various manifestations. The result is an empirically grounded work that has greatly contributed to exploration and discussion of migrant transnationalism, challenging some of findings in academic work on migrant transnationalism that emerged in early 1990s. For instance Aguilar notes that same group of migrants is either considered as reneging on patriotism and thus to nation, or described as newfound transnationalists, thus identifying an academic discourse in South that runs counter to that in North (p. 175).The tensions generated by execution of Contemplacion in Singapore in 1995, where Aguilar was employed at time, led him to study of Philippine labor migration. His empathy for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is strongly evident in his writings, and his interest in labor migration from angles of social class and nationhood reveals his concerns for questions of status, belonging, and place as they relate to sentiments of nationhood and shame. In exploring these relationships, Aguilar looks back to nascent nationalism among young ilustrados2) in Europe, drawing an interesting parallel between Jose Rizal's and his comrades' reaction to colonial racism and its shaming of nation-cum-race, and today's sense of shame experienced by educated middle- and upper-class Filipinos for nationality they share with low-status OFWs. Underpinning these sentiments is not merely exasperation over being stereotyped, but also Filipino elite's discontent with having lost control over international image of nation.While labor migrants are being labeled as shameful export (p. …

The Trauma Clinic: A Brief Comment

The present text aims to promote reflections about the trauma clinic. It is a treatment practice conceived within the psychological care of refugee immigrants, marked by the silencing that comes from the fixation in the traumatic moment. Such practice requires unconventional interventions that can symptomatize this deadly silence and convey the experience of loss produced by the trauma of displacement/uprooting. We propose a few questions regarding the ethos of the trauma clinic, at the same time as we present some Freudian indications for the understanding of the operation of this traumatic moment. Both authors authorize the publication of this study.

Evaluation of anti-stressor protection of the different methods of general anesthesia at an adenotomy in children

Aim. An evaluation of the level of anti-stressor protection of the different methods of general anesthesia at adenotomy in children by the study of indicators of hemodynamics and the level of “stress markers”.Materials and methods. Research includes 60 children 6-11 years old who underwent adenotomy. Patients were divided into 3 groups: I group (n=21) – were operated in conditions of intravenous anesthesia on the basis of propofol in combination with fentanyl; II group (n=19) – were operated in conditions of an inhalational anesthesia with sevoflurane in combination with fentanyl and sodium metamizol; III group (n=20) – were operated in conditions of intravenous anesthesia on the basis of sodium thiopental in combination with fentanyl. The differences considered reliable at р<0,0 using t-criterion of Student. Coefficient of correlation was defined according to Pirson.Results. It was revealed that in all groups at all stages of research the levels of insulin and glycemia didn’t exceed the limits of the laboratory norm. At the stage of traumatic moment of an operation it was marked an increase of the cortisol level in the I group (p>0,05), but this increase was in the limits of laboratory norm, in II and III groups was the more essential tendency to the growth of cortisol level but it wasn’t marked a reliable difference in groups between the stages (p>0,05). At the stage of extubation of trachea in patients of II and III groups it was marked a tendency to decrease of the cortisol level but the next morning after operation there were no reliable intergroup differences of cortisol level. The stable correlations between the “stress markers” and clinical indicators weren’t fixed. BIS-monitoring in children in conditions of general anesthesia with sodium thiopental needs the more precise investigation.Conclusions. Anesthesia with the use of propofol in combination with fentanyl (2mkg/kg) ensures the most pronounced level of anti-stressor protection at an adenotomy in children

Evaluation of the adequacy of anesthesia and the incidence of emergence agitation during adenotomy in children

The objective – to compare the adequacy of anesthesia by assessing the levels of stress hormones under different methods of general anesthesia and the incidence of emergence agitation during adenotomy in children.Materials and methods. In investigation included 40 children aged 6 to 11 years, who had adenotomy. The patients were divided into two groups: the 1st group (n=21) included patients operated under intravenous anesthesia based on propofol combined with fentanyl, the 2nd group (n=19) included patients operated under inhalation anesthesia with sevoflurane in combination with fentanyl and analginum.Results. It was found that in both groups at all stages of the study insulin levels, glucose levels and HOMA index did not go beyond laboratory standards. It should be mentioned that at the stage of traumatic moment of operation in the 1st group cortisol level increased, but this elevation did not go beyond the norm. In the 2nd group a significant upward trend was marked in cortisol level, but th ere was no statistical difference between the grou ps. The next morning cortisol levels after surgery in both groups were within laboratory standards. Taking into conside ration cortisol/insulin ratio: at the stage of the traumatic moment of operation there wasn't detected any significant difference from preoperative figures, however, it is worth mentioning that in the 2nd group at this stage there was an uptrend, which indicates tension of the adaptation abilities. The incidence of the emergence agitation did not differ between the groups.Conclusion. There was marked a more distinctive level of an tistress protection using intravenous anesthesia based on propofol combined with fentanyl compared to inhalation anesthesia with sevoflurane in combination with fentanyl and analginum.

Historique et actualité du concept d’« hallucination négative »

The significant association “negative hallucination” seems paradoxical. How is it possible to hallucinate about nothing? From Bernheim to Freud, Ey to Green as well as Lacan, negative hallucination has been the subject of much debate between productivity and negative reaction. We will reconsider this historical progression by clarifying the concepts. If the problem of negative hallucination has been regularly described as a cardinal point of psychopathology, no author has really developed a specific theory clarifying this clinical phenomenon. For us today, the term negative hallucination highlights a specific defence mechanism, referring neither to repression nor projection, but explaining the representation of absence of representation which characterizes the clinical aspect of the traumatic moment. At the time of the terror, the subject's inability to recognize their subjective involvement in the traumatic scene leads to an attempted de-subjectification, possibly protective of a much deeper depatterning at first, but which will soon reinforce the revivifications which seem to impose themselves from the exterior. Although the trauma and the post-traumatic reaction may be expressions of psychosis, and some authors have argued that “post-traumatic neurosis” is undoubtedly not neurosis, the concept of negative hallucination unites these clinical phenomena. The subject cannot repress or directly represent the trauma, so they represent the absence of representation by an occasional significant void, which can only remain temporary as long as this defensive mechanism of de-subjectification is overcome.

Persistence of ?Survival Skills? as a Risk Factor for Suicide in Severely Traumatised Individuals

Although suicidality is not a diagnostic criterion for PTSD, in clinical practice this condition is often present in particular with those patients who had experienced prolonged or repeated traumatisation. Severely traumatised patients might find suicide as an ‘emergency solution’ in order to escape from the ‘persistence of trauma environment’ that continues into the post-trauma time. Chronic trauma causes identity diffusion, fragility and a feeling of discontinuity, with severely disrupted/shattered self-cohesion, interpersonal relationships and existence. In this study among 24 severely traumatised patients (prisoners of war) it was found evidence of the persistence of five ‘survival skills’: betrayal/detachment, untrustworthiness of perception, traumatic moment, mobilisation for danger, and non-aliveness/vitality which could be a risk factor for the suicidality.

Drinkin' Beer N’ Vino’ N’Jameson: From Booze to Birth in Beckett

In a letter written to Barney Rosset on 12 November 1955, Beckett opined: If there is thing I cannot do is talk about my work, or 'explain' it, except perhaps over third bottle with an indulgent friend (2011, 567). This quote is interesting for two reasons. Primarily, it signals a relaxed attitude to business of enjoying a drink or three. This is a welcome development given that Beckett's relationship with booze had once been more fraught. Secondly, quote implies an association between business of writing and drinking, suggesting analysis that employs alcohol might illuminate something otherwise not obvious in work. This essay aspires to do something similar; to render visible an embedded subtext that revolves around alcohol and its translation into text (and you wish to enjoy a drink while reading it, please do so).It is certain that Beckett had embarked upon his drinking career by time he was ensconced in Paris in 1928, and in company of Joyce and his coterie. For example, Beckett was notoriously high-spirited on publication of French translation of Ulysses, arranged to coincide with twenty-fifth anniversary of Bloomsday in 1929. The day's festivities, designed to honour were marked by travelling party abandoning Beckett while he visited one of those temporary palaces which are inseparably associated with memory of Emperor Vespasian (i.e., a urinal) (Joyce, qtd. in Ellmann, 615-16; see also Knowlson, 108-19).In Dante . . . Bruno . Vico . . Joyce, Beckett celebrates the prospect of self-extension in world of Mr James Joyce's 'Work in Progress' (1983, 19). Of as-yet-unnamed Finnegans Wake he declares:Here form is content, content is form. [...] His writing is not about something; it is that something itself. [...] When sense is dancing, words dance. [...] The language is drunk. The very words are tilted and effervescent. [...] we cannot hope to snare sense which is for ever rising to surface of form and becoming form itself.(Beckett 1983, 27; emphasis in original)It is interesting to note that in 1929, and when personifying drunken language, Beckett equates drinking with an effervescent creativity. However, by 1934 and his first short story collection More Pricks Than Kicks we encounter what appears to be an attempt to negotiate an escape from drinking in order to be more creative; an attempt, essentially, to escape pub through publication.In Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, Cronin records Martin Esslin remembering a conversation with Beckett in 1960s. Esslin asks Beckett he has a grudge against Ireland:Oh no, I'm a fervent patriot and republican.Why do you live in Paris then?Well, you know, I were in Dublin I would just be sitting around in a pub.(265)Evidently, by 1960s Beckett saw pub as a graveyard of creative talent. This view was most likely consolidating in his mind during his analysis in London in mid-1930s. He had been convinced of need to undertake psychotherapy as a result of an arrhythmic heart condition that rendered him largely incapacitated, spending large parts of his day in pub, drinking, in order to forestall panic attacks. However, his condition sufficiently improved during analysis for Beckett to inform Thomas MacGreevy that if heart had not put fear of death into me I would be still boozing and sneering and lounging around and feeling that I was too good for anything else (qtd. in Knowlson, 210). Apparently, alcohol had become central to a feckless lifestyle that masked deeper problems, and so before Beckett could begin writing in earnest, he had to extricate himself from pub. Moreover, drinking can be traced to a specific traumatic moment, which Beckett linked to death of his father. In this regard, he told Knowlson: After my father's death I had trouble psychologically. …

L’instant du traumatisme

ObjectivesThe article describes the elements of the traumatic moment and peri-trauma or per trauma and discusses their value in differential clinical perspective. Materials and methodsThe authors proceed with a review of contemporary literature on peri-traumatic dissociation and trauma. They emphasise on the notion of traumatic psychosis. Examples of clinical practice of trauma are used to illustrate their views. ResultsIf the trauma has several times, the traumatic break's one, the meeting time, is in especially described through peri-traumatic clinic. Renamed “clinical per traumatic” by L. Croq, it is the time of a one-to-one where electively deploys dissociative symptoms or psychotic-like responding to terror and the threat of annihilation psychological and/or physical. This dissociative clinic is now full and enjoys a renewed interest in the concept of dissociation. But its use, in the traumatic moment's approach, shows some limitations revealed in this story. As for the symptoms of psychotic look, described as “traumatic psychosis”, it can be complemented by the identification of a transitional state autistic defensive value. This, raises the question of what, in the psychic structure, due to the traumatic break, produced figures such clinics. ConclusionsThe interest of an differential clinic of the show's traumatic instant is to give elements to the clinician to guide and maintain a position facing to a real goal.

Manicheism delirium: desire and disavowal in the libidinal economy of an emerging economy

This paper explores the motivations behind the outward foreign direct investment (ofdi) decisions in the past decade of an East Asian government-linked corporation (glc), the largest company of its kind in the world in terms of sectoral specialisation. This glc has travelled far from its origins as an agent of European imperialism to its current controversial role spearheading postcolonial extra-territorialisation strategies. I argue that financial predation is the synechdoche for territorialisation in the new imperialism. Consequently emerging economies pre-empt the financial siege by embarking on ofdi strategies themselves to create economic buffer territory. I construct a psychoanalytical framework for examining how anxiety is acted out in the global economy. I apply concepts of the traumatic moment, anxiety and the defence mechanisms of disavowal, splitting, introjection and projection to analyse the glc’s investments as territorial displacements of the libidinal economy.

Forging Continuing Bonds from the Dead to the Living: Gothic Commemorative Practices along Australia’s Leichhardt Highway

Forging Continuing Bonds from the Dead to the Living: Gothic Commemorative Practices along Australia’s Leichhardt Highway

Emotional and Developmental Repair through Psychodrama: Floortime for Grown-Ups

Emotional and Developmental Repair through Psychodrama: Floortime for Grown-Ups